WHETSTONES TOOI, I!OXE.« 



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braid with the ends kuott.-d toj;vtlier and the bi-ht \oo\H'd im,, tlic eve 

 A large sky-blue glass bead is slipped on over both parts of the hinyard 

 and pushed up close to the loop. Fig. l(j:5rt. (No. SDOi'l [T.-.T], ivoni 

 Utkiavwiu) is very short and broad (3-G inches by O-O), is chaiiir.Ted at 

 both ends, and has the ornamental grooves at tlie eye. The niaterial'is 

 a hard, opaque, bluish gray stone, veined with blaek. 



A whetstone of similar material was brought by Lieut. Stoney from 

 Kotzebue Souud. The long lanyard is of sinew braid. Fig. mm (No. 

 89622 [951], also fi-om Utkiavwm) is a very small, sleuder whetstone, 

 3-3 inches long, of dark olive green semitranslueeut jade, polished. The 

 tip is not chamfered, but tapers to a blunt point. It has the ornamental 

 grooves at the eye. These are undoubtedly the "stones for making 

 . . . whetstones, or tliese ready-made" referred to by Dr. Simpson 

 (Op. cit., p. 260) as brought by the Nuuatanmiun from the people of 



Flo. IM— Womlen tool boxes. 



the "Ko-wak Kiver." A few such whetstones have been collected on 

 other parts of the northwest coast as far south as the northern shore 

 of Norton Sound. The broken whetstone mentioned above is of a 

 beautiful bluisli gieen f lansluceiit jade, liits of stone are also used for 

 whetstones, such as No. S97Sti [1004/], which belong in Ilu'bw'ga's tool 

 bag. They are two rough, oblong bits of hard dark gray slate, appar- 

 ently split ofi" a liat, weathered surface. 



Tool boxes and hags. — We collected six si)ccimens of a peculiarly 

 slia])e(l long, narrow box, carved from a single block of wood, which we 

 were informed were fin-merly used for holding tools. They have gone 

 out of fasiii(m at the present day, and there are but few of them left. 

 No. 89860 [lir»2]. Fig. 164rt, represents the typical shape of this box. 

 It is carved from a single block of pine. The cover is slightly hollowed 

 on the; under side and is held on by two double rings of twine (one of 

 seal twine and the otlicr of sinew braid), large enough to shp o\er the 



